Carpet-fastener



(No Modelk) O. D. SOUTHWORTH.

CARPET FASTBNER.

110.424,511. vPatentc-Jd Apr. 1,1890.

r 5 stength to hold a heavy carpet.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OIVEN D. SOUTI-DVORTH, OF GASPORT, NEV YORK.

CARPET-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,511, dated April 1, 1890.

Application filed May 21, 1889. Serial No. 311,646. (No model.)

T all whmn t may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN D. SoUTHwoRTH,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Gasport, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Carpet-Strip, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the fastening of carpets to floors and the removing them from floors. I attain this object by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a strip of noncorrosive metal to which is attached hooks of snfcient Fig. 2 is a View of the strip with one of the hooks in place and with the other` hooks removed.

The hook h in Fig. l is fastened to the strip by its ends being inserted through the two punched holes d d and the end clinched, as shown' at c. The hook b in Fig. 2 is passed under the strip at o, which is crimped to receive the Shanks of the hooks, as at c.

d d represent punctures made in the strip for nails or screws to fasten the strip to the floor. The recess formed 4by the crimping at d receives the shank of the hook so that the strip will lie snug to the floor.

In use the strip is to he nailed to the floor next to the base-board, or the required edge of the carpet quite around the room, when a carpet can easily be attached to the floor by fastening the edges of the carpet to the hooks and as readily removed from the floor by raising the saine from the hooks.`

Having fullydescribed my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent, is-

A-n improved carpet-fastener consisting of a metallic strip formed with transverse crimped recesses at one edge, and hooks having their Shanks seated in said recesses and the hooks adapted to engage the edge of the carpet, substantially as shown and described.

GIVEN D. SOUTHIVORTH.

X'Vitnesses:

C. CoNNoLY, M. A. MEsLER. 

